Lhabab Düchen Practice Day with Geshe Gelek (hybrid)

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10:30 am Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Lhabab Düchen ~ Buddha's Descent from the God Realm of the Thirty-three

Geshe Gelek leads practices on Lhabab Düchen, a merit-multiplying Holy Day!

Join us on Tuesday, November 11, beginning at 10:30 am (ET) until about noon.

~ offered in person and online ~

HOW TO ATTEND

1.  In person at Kadampa Center

2.  Join via Zoom HERE

3.  Watch on YouTube livestream HERE

WAYS TO MAKE OFFERINGS ON LHABAB DÜCHEN 

1. Sponsor Lhabab Düchen Holy Day activities, $108

  • First, make your financial sponsorship HERE
  • Then, submit your dedication HERE

2. Make offerings to Kadampa Center sangha members by placing financial offerings and/or notes of thanks and kindness in envelopes for our precious monks and nuns.

3.  Contribute to the FPMT Puja Fund ~ learn more about the Puja Fund and make your donation HERE

ABOUT LHABAB DÜCHEN

Occurring on the 22nd day of the ninth month of the Tibetan lunar calendar, Lhabab Düchen is one of the four major Buddhist Holy days of the year.  This year, Lhabab Düchen takes place on November 11, 2025.

Lhabab Düchen celebrates Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s return to Earth from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three after teaching Dharma for several months to the gods, including his mother, Mayadevi, who had died a week after Buddha’s birth and been reborn there.

As a merit multiplying day, the karmic results of actions done on this day are multiplied 100 million times. This amazing result is taught in the vinaya text Treasure of Quotations and Logic.

Geshe Gelek encourages students to take the Eight Mahayana Precepts on holy days. Students who have taken these precepts before from a qualified master may take them at home in front of their own altar.  Students may also take the precepts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche via this video, which was produced especially to provide this opportunity to those who have not received them.  For more about the practice of precepts, please read The Direct and Unmistaken Method by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 

Learn more about Lhabab Düchen HERE.

Location at Kadampa Center: 
Gompa